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The article says more than 100 miles, that's 1 significant figure, and likely somewhere in the 100-120 mile range. More than 160km is the appropriate conversion, and indeed what the article says, it's likely 160-200km.

If I say it's 50km to somewhere, an appropriate conversion would be 30 miles, not 31.07 miles.




Pardon my French, but on encule un peu les mouches là.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enculer_les_mouches


No one cares about sig figs in mechanical engineering, which is what this is closest to. They only really matter in chemistry.




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